Caolan McNamara said:
> The bees knees when it comes to this stuff though is purify from
> rational rose, no version for linux unfortunately, but has one for
> solaris. At it seriously kicks ass, I have to say I love it. Memory
> leak tracing plus electric fence style bounds error flagging for
> dynamic and static arrays. Uninitialized reads as well, reads from
> past the end of a file etc etc. Great stuff altogether. One of the few
> pieces of development software which I would recommend that you buy, a
> killer app in favour of solaris :-)
Yeah I was about to say that. However I cannot believe there is *STILL* no
Linux version!!! That's just outrageous. Let's hope the ElectricFence etc.
tools start to implement some of Purify's extra checks (the non-patented ones
at least, grr).
Also regarding non-leaking C++: stack-allocated automatic pointers are C++'s
big plus point IMHO, that'll stop leakage.
--j.
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